December 2011

12/28/2011

Rand Worldwide, the parent company of IMAGINiT Technologies, was pleased to host our first employee Food Drive Challenge this holiday season. As a global company, we wanted to find a way to give back to the community on the local level where our employees live and work. So we encouraged our local offices to participate in a little healthy competition to see which office could contribute the most food by weight per employee in that location. It was an overwhelming success and a HUGE thank you to our employees for participating and showing what kind and generous employees we have at Rand Worldwide. In total, we collected 4,129 lbs of food which was donated prior to December 25 to food banks in many of our local communities.

The winning office was Des Moines, Iowa which collected 458 lbs of food equal to 57.3 lbs per employee. Not far behind was Cleveland, Ohio which needed a truck to take away the 1,139 lbs collected (45.6lbs per person) and Omaha, Nebraska with 598 lbs of food (37.4lbs per person). Honorable mentions to Winnipeg, Manitoba and Syracuse, NY, which have 3 and 2 employees respectively but brought in close to 30 lbs per person. Tampa, Florida also donated toys in addition to food. We enjoyed seeing so much employee engagement and the competitive spirit between our offices all for a great cause. We demonstrated a great sense of team spirit and worked together to benefit so many in the local communities. Kudos to all of our employees who participated!

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